Federal Housing Administration: Difference between revisions

In 1935, [[Colonial Village (Arlington, Virginia)|Colonial Village]] in [[Arlington County, Virginia]], was the first large-scale, rental housing project erected in the United States that was Federal Housing Administration-insured.<ref name="VAnom">{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Arlington/000-0013_Colonial_Village_1980_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Monroe Courts Historic District |author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff |date=May 1980}}</ref>  During World War&nbsp;II, the FHA financed a number of worker's housing projects including the [[Kensington Gardens Apartment Complex]] in [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref name="nrhp_app">{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NaZX-00pbKxsRZ_B8151LQKkgX2UJXoQ9XfS2fYVkTueIJkQi51EM_lkMB5C/view |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kensington Gardens Apartment Complex |author1=Jason Wilson |author2=Tom Yots |date=June 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |author3=Daniel McEneny}}</ref> During the Great Depression, Ohio Cities used federal government funds for building housing projects and first two of those projects completed in the United States were in Cincinnati and Cleveland.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Federal Housing Act |url=https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Federal_Housing_Act |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=Ohio History Central}}</ref>